Moral Dilemmas, the Tragic and God’s Hiddenness. Notes on Shusaku Endo’s Silence

• Authors: Głąb Anna
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The essay discusses the religious and ethical message of Shusaku Endo’s Silence. Briefly focusing first on the plot of the novel, the article proceeds to discuss the moral dilemma that is the core of the novel and asks whether the dilemma is symmetrical or incommensurable. Next, the essay analyzes the dilemma from the point of view of Max Scheler’s theory of the tragic. Finally, to highlight Rodrigues’s tragic situation, it discusses the notion of the hiddenness of God.

Keywords

EN

Endo; Rodrigues; moral dilemma; the tragic; Scheler; God’s hiddenness

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii - Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Diametros
• Year: 2018
• Issue: 58
• Pages: 18-33

Dates

published

2018-12

Contributors

author

Głąb Anna

• Department of the History of Modern and Contemporary, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin

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Identifiers

ISSN

ISSN 1733-5566

DOI

10.13153/diam.1282